Physical newsletter service
Analog connection amid the digital noise. Hand-signed letters from the world’s most inspiring authors, delivered to your mailbox.
The first letters go out in December 2026.
DiscoverMap
Gold dots are post offices with an author. Find yours and see which ones near you are still free.
Homingway works in the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia.
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Real letters in the age of AI
The goal
That’s the next World Post Day. The counts below are the authors who have actually joined.
How it works
Create your author account and pick the post office near you. We approve each one by hand.
One letter, in your language.
We lay out the letter and a PDF with your subscribers’ addresses. You print it, sign it and post it from your own post office.
Choose a place and the person who writes from there.
Subscriptions open in November, and the first letters go out in December 2026.
A paper letter from the author’s city, in your mailbox.
Ordinary letters have no tracking number, so we can’t promise an exact delivery date. A letter usually arrives within a month.
Letters are delivered to the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia.
How it started
Madrid
On 9 October 2026, World Post Day, I walked past the post office in the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid. The building opened in 1919 as the city’s main post and telegraph office, the Palacio de Comunicaciones. Since 2007 it has been Madrid City Hall, and the post office is still there.
And I wondered when I had last received a real letter.
That’s where the idea came from: people in every city writing a letter every month and posting it from their own post office.
I spent the next three days building it. And here it is — Quelper Homingway.
Stanislavfounder of Quelper · author #001
Why now
80%
About 80% of people surveyed in Spain don’t send letters to other individuals.
Source: CNMC annual postal report, 31 July 2025 (opens in a new tab)
30 Dec 2025
Denmark’s national post, PostNord, delivered its last letter on 30 December 2025. Letters there are now delivered by a private company.
Source: PostNord press release, 6 March 2025 (opens in a new tab)
1874
World Post Day is 9 October, the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, founded in Bern on 9 October 1874.
The name
A homing pigeon is the bird that always finds its way home. Homingway is that way: every letter leaves its author’s post office and finds its way to a reader’s home.
Find it on the map. If nobody writes from it yet, it could be you.
The first letters go out in December 2026.
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